Astronomical Practices and Ritual Calendar of Euro-Asian Nomads

the development of iranian calendar: historical and astronomical foundations

the official iranian calendar is a solar one that in both the length and the first day of its year is based not on convention, but on two natural (i.e. astronomical) factors: a) the moment of coincidence of the centre of the sun and the vernal equinox during the sun’s apparent revolution around the earth; and b) the time length between two successive apparent passages of the sun’s center across...

Astronomical Algorithms: Amended Multi-Millennia Calendar

Three new worldwide calendars are proposed and compared in this paper. None of them requires any departure from an existing tradition to divide years on lean and leap. Although all three are pretty accurate, it is demonstrated that the Julian calendar with one additional amendment is the simplest and the most suitable for implementation.

The challenge of Nomads’ Migration and Nomads’ schools

Abstract: Two annual migrations of nomadic tribes have a large impact on school work and learning of students. This study is a qualitative case study and intends to examine the impact of a reduction in teaching time in nomadic schools. In order to assess the students’ absence from school each year due to two migrations and its negative effects, the researcher used mixed method research(Quantita...

Dietary practices of Asian diabetics.

Sedentarization of Tibetan Nomads

In my editorial I explicitly and repeatedly refer to “swordfish or tuna from overfished and declining stocks” and to “Mediterranean swordfish.” Even the ICCAT report Kerstetter cites suggests that the Mediterranean swordfish stock is in crisis. So what is the point of criticizing my editorial on the basis that another swordfish stock can be “proudly” eaten because, in Kerstetter’s words, it has...